Smith, Sydney Ure (ed)The Art of William Dobell (Present Day Art in Australia Series) Ure Smith Pty Limited, Sydney, 1946, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s)136 pages (complete). Coloured plates and plates of b/w work. Preface and published by Sydney Ure Smith whose life's work was to publish, in the best technological way possible, coloured work by Australian artists. He was a dedicated supporter and promoter of Australian artists at a time when it was not easy, nor fashionable to do so. Brian Penton, who wrote the introduction, was a successful journalist who supported Dobell when he won, amidst controversy with his 'caricature' painting of Joshua Smith - a fellow Australian artist (this painting is included in this book). Dobell's 'caricature' of Penton is also included. This copy is signed by Dobell (who was later knighted) on the verso frontispage. Apparently leather bound for presentation. The cover has wear to the corners, the head and foot of the spine and to the shelving edges. The spine is strong and muscular. There is evidence of ownership and usage throughout. The frontis and end pages have foxing. The binding is firm and secure. The initial pages have some handling marks. The contents are bold, vivid, vigorous, clean, clear and very confident. fk Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art; Australia; Signed by Author(s). Inventory No: anhf.

BELTRAN, GONZALO AGUIRRELA POBLACION NEGRA DE MEXICO 1519-1810 THE BLACK POPULATION OF MEXICO While a string of books and articles were written in the 1920s and 30s onAfro-Mexicans, it was in the 1940s when the so-called birth of Afro-Mexicanhistorical studies began. The credit is usually given to the work of, GonzaloAguirre Beltr?n, whose La Poblaci?n Negra de M?xico (1946) has become thecornerstone of the field. Having been trained by Melville Herskovits atNorthwestern, Aguirre Beltr?n's book was the first to systematically employa methodology for examining the African roots of Mexico's population. Hisbook also offered a sweeping demographic analysis of the colonial blackpopulation, stressing the extent to which blacks could be found throughoutNew Spain. One of the book's main arguments took a cue from the MexicanRevolution. As revisionist as it was in giving space to Afro-Mexicans in thenation's history, La Poblaci?n Negra emphasized assimilation and hybridity,noting that the colonial Mexican caste system and its abolition during theIndependence era created superb circumstances for racial mixture. Apart from a few isolated regional pockets, Aguirre Beltr?n wrote thatAfro-Mexicans had eagerly and spontaneously blended into the broadernational population by the early years of Independence.It is important to stress that Aguirre Beltr?n's work, while pioneering,was not written in isolation. German Latorre (1920) had already started thedemographic work that proved foundational to the writings of AguirreBeltr?n. Carlos Basauri's (1943) ethnographic study of Mexico's blackpopulations proved influential to Aguirre Beltr?n's later writings. Lastly,Aguirre Beltr?n's decision to study Afro-Mexicans was not an idea heconceived of himself. Rather, he appears to have been prodded into theproject upon the suggestion of Manuel Gamio, one of the leading intellectualfigures of Mexico's Revolutionary period.The era of scholarship on Afro-Mexicans that stretched through the 1940s,50s, and early 60s can be categorized as one of gradual internationalization,as more scholars from outside of Mexico began paying closer attention theMexican case. Aguirre Beltr?n's study came at a particularly opportune timein this regard. It was published during the same year as Frank Tannenbaum'sSlave and Citizen (1946), which opened a series of debates that launched thecomparative slavery school.11 Through an increasingly internationalizedunderstanding of slave systems, scholars began trying to uncover the rootsof the "Negro problem" that had so beleaguered the United States, butwhich seemed largely resolved in Latin American societies. Tannenbaum'sthesis that Latin American slavery was qualitatively different than in NorthAmerica and the British colonies sent scores of scholars scurrying to prove(or disprove) his points.Aguirre Beltr?n's book, although engaged inconversation with a different historiography, emerged in the context of theTannenbaum debate as an important tome on Mexican slavery and LatinAmerican race relations, offering some support to the idealized, benignportrait of Latin American slave systems. The book was positioned alongsideother important classics that were written by nationalistically oriented scholarswho sought to affirm Latin American race mixture, such as Gilberto Freyrein Brazil, and to a lesser extent Fernando Ortiz in Cuba.12 The ramificationsof these early investigations into the condition of race within individual

PATCHEN, KennethPanels For The Walls Of Heaven San Francisco: Bern Porter, 1946. First, Limited Edition. Apparently an out of series copy, as the rear panel does not include the hand-painted colophon seen on most other examples, and is not signed by Patchen. Possibly a trial copy; or Patchen might simply not have liked the dark, somewhat muddy image enough offer it for sale. It is easy to imagine a dejected Patchen not wanting to be bothered with "improving" the painting; Morgan states that Patchen so loathed the design and finished look of this title that he "refused to aid the book sales in any way" and remained enemies for years with Bern Porter, the publisher. Square octavo. Original cloth-backed boards; 67p. One of 150 special copies, with front and rear boards hand-painted by Patchen; this copy out of series, and possibly unfinished; at any rate a somewhat less compelling image than we are used to seeing on Patchen's painted books. Just slight rubbing to cloth spine, two small abrasions to board extremities; else a strong, unworn copy; lacking the original acetate jacket. MORGAN A12.

QUINN, NoëlLondon via Constellation. World Leader in Speed, Comfort, Safety Kansas City: Trans World Airlines,, c. 1946. Sheet size: 99.6 x 66.2 cm. Process lithograph on wove paper. Sellotape to corners, small chip to right hand margin with a short tear entering the image. An image of Queen Boedicca on her chariot in front of Big Ben with a Lockheed constellation flying overhead. Advertisement for Lockheed Constellation. The L-1649 Starliner was a propeller-driven airliner powered by four 18-cylinder radial Wright R-3350 engines and was the last model of the Lockheed Constellation. This passenger aircraft was one of the first regular transatlantic carriers.

Russell, BertrandHistory of Western Philosophy and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day George Allen & Unwin, 1946, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s)The book is inscribed by Russell on the half-title page in green ink thus: "For Lil from Bertrand and Lee". No other inscriptions. The half-title page is slightly darkened. The original jacket (which was printed on the rear of old maps) is shelf-worn and the top and bottom of the spine are frayed. The back of the jacket is slightly marked and there are other small tears. The jacket, however, presents well in cellophane. The book is very well bound. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Signed by Author(s). Inventory No: 16et.

MORRIS, WrightThe Inhabitants New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD ANTIQUARIAN CONDITION. Large quarto. Unpaginated (principally illustrated with photographs and texts by Wright Morris. Original beige cloth with title embossed in large letters, unclipped original dust-jacket with some wear at extremities, thin white crease on cover. The first photo-novel about America's heartland in the 1930's and 1940's, with many strikingly simple and direct photographs that perfectly represent the time and place. The photographer writes: "I saw the American landscape crowded with ruins and believed myself chosen to record this history before it was gone." * Wright Morris is the creator of the "photo-text." In The Inhabitants, photographs were paired with fictional texts; he began the project in 1938 as he traveled through the East and was moved by artifacts from the past. To his surprise, Morris began writing short prose texts related to these images, and they began to combine with the images to form something greater than the two parts. * This body of work was the product of a Guggenheim Fellowhip (the second ever presented for photography), and allowed Morris to return to his native state of Nebraska to photograph the landscape and artifacts of the life he wanted the country to remember. "Like an archeologist, he focused not on people directly, but their artifacts -- objects (mostly made of wood) bearing their imprint" (Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century). In a letter to the photographer, Thomas Mann wrote: "What these courageous pictures show is the harsh beauty of ugliness, the romanticism of the commonplace, the poetry of the unpoetical.

BURTON, MilesSituation Vacant Collins for the Crime Club, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very nice original orange boards, very clean pages and endpapers, in a very near fine dustjacket, not price-clipped, a slightly paled spine, a few small pieces of conservation, lightly rubbed to the rear. All in all, an extremely nice copy of a scarce Burton crime novel, featuring Inspector Arnold and his friend Desmond Merrion.

HAZLITT, HenryEconomics in One Lesson New York and London: Harper & Brothers,. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, with the dust jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. Dust jacket frayed at head and spine ends, with some chipping, rear panel darkened. A very good copy. First edition of a work which had a remarkable influence and success, not only in America. Endorsed by Hayek as "a brilliant performance... I know of no other modern book from which the intelligent layman can learn so much about the basic truths of economics in so short a time" (dust jacket blurb), Hazlitt's work, like that of his French predecessor Frédéric Bastiat, exposed the popular fallacies of his day. "A brilliant and pithy work first published in 1946, at a time of rampant statism at home and abroad, it taught millions the bad consequences of putting government in charge of economic life. College students across America and the world still use it and learn from it. It may be the most popular economics text ever written." (The Mises Institute website).

Bardin, John FranklinTHE DEADLY PERCHERON Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1946 - Octavo, cloth. Author's first novel. "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, mild rubbing to corners and spine ends, tiny chip to upper right corner, mild age darkening to white lettering on spine panel. Scarce in this condition. (10975) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

ANGLICAN MISSAL. SOCIETY OF SS. PETER AND PAUL.:Anglican Missal containing the Supper of the Lord and the Holy Communion, commonly called the Mass, together with Propers of the Season and Saints…and Forms of Prayer for the Lord's Supper. IN SIGNED SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE BINDING Society of SS Peter and Paul, 1946. Roy. 4to., with a frontispiece, and full-page illustrations and plainchant notations in the text; handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt with a ornamental floral frame supported by urns and enclosing the Agnus Dei, back with five tall raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, boards edges with gilt rule, broad morocco doublures with elaborate multiple frame border of leaves, fillets and rolls all in gilt, marbled endpapers, seven coloured silk markers, four silk thumb-tags, covers mildly worn at corners and headband, upper board and backstrip unevenly sunned to green else a very good, bright, firm copy. The binding is signed with the extended Sangorski & Sutcliffe tool on front doublure. A typescript extract of the lesson from Ezekiel 18.26 is mounted between pp. 166-7. There are several usage flaws comprising crude repairs to long tear in half-title/frontispiece leaf, short tear in title, short tear in Communion iii, short tear in Various Prayers p.1315. A lovely example of a Sangorski & Sutcliffe clerical binding. Very scarce. . Catalogs: theology.

Various AuthorsWorld War II Japanese Chichi Jima War Crimes Archive - - Beheadings & Cannibalism United States Pacific Fleet: Commander Marianas, Guam 1946 - This is a collection of official documents from the War Crimes Trial of Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana, Vice Admiral Kunzio Mori, and twelve subordinates which was convened in August of 1946 at Headquarters, Commander Marianas by Rear Admiral C. A. Pownall. The Japanese officers and men were all accused of summarily executing eight of nine U.S. Navy aviators who were shot down over the island of Chichi Jima. After the senior Japanese army officer on the island, General Tachibana, declared that all of the men would be executed "to boost the fighting morale of the Japanese troops" the eight captured aviators were publicly bayoneted, beat to death with clubs, and/or beheaded. Following their death, two Japanese surgeons cut out the livers of four of the men and also removed parts of their thighs. These were presented to one of Tachibana's staff officers, Major Matoba, who had the livers grilled and the thighs made into sukiyaki as a meal to enrich the martial spirit of the island's leadership. After Japan's unconditional surrender, American forces occupied the island and were surprised to find no prisoners of war. Although the Japanese leadership initially attempted to hide the atrocity, many witnesses provided the truth and some of the perpetrators confessed. All but one of the defendants were found guilty to some degree, and three, including Tachiban and Matoba, were executed by hanging. Oh, the ninth downed aviator, the one who escaped, was George Herbert Walker Bush. His parachute landed off-shore and he managed to out-paddle pursuing Japanese in his inflatable survival raft until he was fortunately rescued by an American submarine, the USS Finback. The archive contains over 150 pages of mimeographed text that describes the grisly atrocities in detail. It includes 1) A summary sheet identifying all participants in the trial and showing their locations within the court room, 2) The convening document titled "Charges and Specifications - in the case of Lieutenant General Tachibana . . . [and all of the other defendents" 3) Two Arguments for the Prosecution by Lieutenants Field and Suss, 4) Six Arguments for the Accused by Commander Carlson, Lieutenant Commander Dickey, Mr. Ijichi, Mr. Toda, Mr. Ito, and Mr. Morikawa, and 5) An original court-room pencil sketch of Tachibana by "Hughes." For more information, see Sorties into Hell: The Hidden War on Chichi Jima by Chester G. Hearn and Flyboys: a True Story of Courage by James Bradley. These documents come from the estate of one of the court reporters who saved them after the trial.

(BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John). FLINDERS, MatthewMatthew Flinders' Narrative of His Voyage in the Schooner Francis, 1798. Preceded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of Sidney Cove, &c, by Geoffrey Rawson with engravings by John Buckland Wright. (Deluxe Edition). Londen, Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. 31 x 19 cm. Original full morocco (Sangorski & Sutcliffe). (4), 104 p. Top gilt. Printed in 750 numbered copies on green-grey Arnold's mould-made paper with Bembo type, Centaur initials (Bruce Rogers), and Lyons capitals (Louis Perrin). Wood engravings printed in green. With a map of South-East Australia and Tasmania. First edition. Spine a bit discolored. The faintest of wear on edge tops of the spine. Some offsetting from the leather to the margins of the endpapers. Bookplate of W. & P.J. Kupfer.* This is one of 100 numbered deluxe copies bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco tooled in gold, decorated on upper and lower cover with two ships, designed by Buckland-Wright, gilt lines on the inside and decorations on the edges. An absolutely beautiful book! Reid A45a.

WHEELWRIGHT, Mary C., recorded byHail Chant and Water Chant Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe 1946 - First edition. Navajo Religion Series Volume II. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. See this book in 3D on our site. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Camus, AlbertThe Stranger New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American edition. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. 155 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Near fine in very good unclipped dust-jacket by Warren Chappel, chipped and worn at head of spine, light wear and some small closed tears to panels. Ownership signature on ffep dated April 1946.

LucienDIALOGUES DES COURTISANES Paris: Éditions De Mouflon, 1946. unbound signatures as issued, held in stiff paper wrappers, suites of illustrations in original glassine chemises, all housed in. Sigros, Dan. 4to. unbound signatures as issued, held in stiff paper wrappers, suites of illustrations in original glassine chemises, all housed in. (viii), 140, (4) followed by illustrations. Traduction nouvelle de Georges Eudes Gravures et ornements de Dan Sigros. One of three bound thus "sur vélin d'Arches teinté, comportant une suite des états, une suite sur chine, une sur vélin du Marais, un dessin original." The signed original drawing is a design that was not used in the book and was done "en sanguine." It is signed in pencil and inscribed in ink "par Miraim Breton." The signed proof is of the illustration appearing in the "cinquième dialogue." The total edition was limited to 590. Slipcase lightly worn at the corners, portfolio slightly worn at fore-edge.

[Film Pressbook]: Tall, Tan and Terrific New York: Astor Pictures Corp.. 1946. Folio. [8]pp. Illustrated self-wrappers. 2" horizontal tear at the spine, modest age-toning and very small additional tears, old horizontal fold, overall very good. Film company's press book for a musical comedy with an all-black cast directed by Bud Pollard and featuring comic star Mantan Moreland, Francine Everett, and Monte Hawley. The press book features various suggested advertising copy and illustration of a variety of posters available for promotional purposes. A little known film set in a nightclub with a plot featuring a murder, solved by the club comedian played by Moreland. Apparently most of the film's 40 minute running time was taken up showcasing a variety of nightclub acts. While OCLC locates multiple copies of the film and the score, they locate no copies of this pressbook. .

BIBLIOGRAPHIE CARTOGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONALE Paris: Armand Colin, 1946. cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Maps. 8vo. cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. variously paginated. 28 volumes., complete. Text in French. Complete set of the original edition of this work. Periodicals 1946-1975. (Titus III, 663). Annual listing of maps and atlases. Entries divided by continent. This periodical was begun in 1936 as "Bibliographie Cartographique Français," changed to current title in 1946 and continues to be published. Volumes after the 1969 issue are numbered counting 1946 as volume one. This set, 1946-50 in one volume, 1951-52 in one volume, most recent years issued in multiple parts. Ex-library set with markings.

Morris, WrightThe Inhabitants. Text and Photographs by New York: Charles Scribner&#39;s Sons, 1946. First edition. 52 full-page b/w photographs. Unpaginated. 1 vols. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Beige blind-stamped cloth. Fine, in very good slightly chipped, unclipped dust jacket with closed tear to front panel. Part one of Morris&#39; groundbreaking photo-fiction trilogy depicts his native Nebraska as a depopulated world of delapidated ruin and desolation&#11;Thomas Mann wrote to Morris: "What these courageous pictures show is the harsh beauty of ugliness, the romanticism of the commonplace, the poetry of the unpoetical" (Roth, 122).

Clark, Roland"Tranquility" New York: Frank Lowe, 1946. Number 55 of 250 copies. Aquatint etching, hand colored, signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 18-3/4 x 14 inches, on a larger sheet. Faint toning. Fine. One of the fine sporting prints published by Frank Lowe, continuing the series of prints published by the Derrydale Press from 1937 to 1942.

Various AuthorsWorld War II Japanese Chichi Jima War Crimes Archive Guam: United States Pacific Fleet: Commander Marianas, 1946. Archive of Documents. Very Good. This is a collection of official documents from the War Crimes Trial of Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana, Vice Admiral Kunzio Mori, and twelve subordinates which was convened in August of 1946 at Headquarters, Commander Marianas by Rear Admiral C. A. Pownall. The Japanese officers and men were all accused of summarily executing eight of nine U.S. Navy aviators who were shot down over the island of Chichi Jima. After the senior Japanese army officer on the island, General Tachibana, declared that all of the men would be executed "to boost the fighting morale of the Japanese troops" the eight captured aviators were publicly bayoneted, beat to death with clubs, and/or beheaded. Following their death, two Japanese surgeons cut out the livers of four of the men and also removed parts of their thighs. These were presented to one of Tachibana's staff officers, Major Matoba, who had the livers grilled and the thighs made into sukiyaki as a meal to enrich the martial spirit of the island's leadership. After Japan's unconditional surrender, American forces occupied the island and were surprised to find no prisoners of war. Although the Japanese leadership initially attempted to hide the atrocity, many witnesses provided the truth and some of the perpetrators confessed. All but one of the defendants were found guilty to some degree, and three, including Tachiban and Matoba, were executed by hanging. Oh, the ninth downed aviator, the one who managed to escape was George Herbert Walker Bush. His parachute landed off-shore and he managed to out-paddle pursuing Japanese in his inflatable survival raft until he was fortunately rescued by an American submarine, the USS Finback. The archive contains over 150 pages of mimeographed text that describes the grisly atrocities in detail. It includes 1) A summary sheet identifying all participants in the trial and showing their locations within the court room, 2) The convening document titled "Charges and Specifications - in the case of Lieutenant General Tachibana . . . ." 3) Two Arguments for the Prosecution by Lieutenants Field and Suss, 4) Six Arguments for the Accused by Commander Carlson, Lieutenant Commander Dickey, Mr. Ijichi, Mr. Toda, Mr. Ito, and Mr. Morikawa, and 5) An original court-room pencil sketch of Tachibana by "Hughes." These documents come from the estate of Ms. Vivian Kilmer, one of the court reporters, who saved them after the trial.

Cummings, E.ETyped Letter, signed ("Cummings"), to Howard Rothschild 4 Patchin Place, [New York], 1946. 2 pp. typed, with hand-addressed envelope. 8vo (11 x 8-1/2 in.). Creased from prior folding. 2 pp. typed, with hand-addressed envelope. 8vo (11 x 8-1/2 in.). "the enclosed is what I happen to believe ?". "the enclosed is what I happen to believe. If your friend, the South American poetess, still wishes to &#39;interview&#39; me after she has read and understood it - fine and dandy; provided she&#39;ll heartily agree to [underlined] quote me (somewhere in the course of her radiotalk) as saying [underlined] exactly this and nothing else ?" Followed on a separate sheet by "individuality always was and always will be the one and only reality: I love it. What a loveless world calls &#39;publicity&#39; is nothing but the disease of unreality; and I loathe it. If you ask me for an individual, I give you William Shakespeare. E.E. Cummings."&#11;[With:] One page Typed Letter, signed, from Cummings&#39; wife, Marion Morehouse, written in 1934 during her and Cummings&#39; stay in Tunisia at Baron Huene&#39;s villa at Hammamet, expressing disdain for the open homosexuality of the Tunisian men, "There isn&#39;t much to write about as we hardly ever leave our place. The people down here are terrible, with few exceptions. They&#39;re all queer and such queers you have never seen ?".

Welty, Eudora:DELTA WEDDING New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1946].. Cloth. First edition. With a later signed inscription from Welty on the title. Faint patch of dulling to upper board, else a tight, bright copy, without dust jacket. POLK A5:1.

Mulkern, Patrick; [Keel, John]The Hobo News: A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow, Vol 6 No 17, April 23, 1946 New York: The Hobo News, 1946. Paperback. Acceptable. New York: The Hobo News, April 23, 1946. Vol. 6, No. 17. New York: The Hobo News, April 23, 1946. Vol. 6, No. 17. Illustrated with photos and many cartoons. Stapled sheets. 24 p. Good- to Fair condition. Binding intact. Sheets are brittle, toned, creased, curled and chipped around edges; paper needs to be handled quite carefully. Gnawing to outer corner margin. A typically fragile, worn copy of a cheaply-produced early street newspaper sold by the homeless. Rare. A 16-year-old John Keel contributed the short piece "Say It With A Song" to this issue. It was most likely the young magician and freelancer's second or third experience in print. Eventually he would write such Fortean classics as The Mothman Prophecies, Disneyland of the Gods, and Jadoo.

Stainforth, MartinAPACHE. HAND-COLORED SPORTING ENGRAVING PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR WILLIAM WOODWARD BY FRANK J. LOWE, FORMERLY OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS [New York: Frank J. Lowe], 1946 - Martin Stainforth is regarded as Australia's leading horse painter, although he was an established artist in his native England before emigrating in 1908. In 1925 he went to America for an extended stay, during which time he painted a number of leading horses, including some of the William Woodward stable which were reproduced as prints by The Derrydale Press. He was noted for his painstaking efforts in making numerous working sketches and watercolors until he felt he had the image just right. States Mitchell: 'stainforth's detail and accuracy in likeness were very fine and very natural. He avoided the pitfalls of flatness and photographic stiffness so often found in this type of work". Printed for William Woodward, a continuation of the series originally begun by The Derrydale Press; when the Press closed in 1942, Frank J. Lowe, its vice- president and sales manager, continued the production of high-quality prints, including additional ones for presentation by Mr. Woodward to his friends First Issue. Image size 14 x 17 inches; with engraved legend and margins. Framed. Slight foxing to image and margin. Mitchell, British Equestrian Artists, pp. 407-08; Ordeman, The Aquatints, Drypoints and Etchings of The Derrydale Press, p. 61

Mainwaring, Daniel, writing as "Geoffrey Homes."BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH New York: William Morrow & Company,. 1946. Octavo,. cloth.. Some dustiness to top edge of pages, a near fine copy in bright, near. fine dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and corners with. very minor loss, two small closed tears at bottom edge of front. panel, closed tear and creases to upper edge of rear panel, and. clipped price. (#125453). First edition. Basis for the classic noir film "Out of the Past," directed by Jacques Tourneur from a script by the author. The film starred Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas.

Homes, Geoffrey (pseudonym of Daniel Mainwaring)BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH William Morrow & Company, New York 1946 - Octavo, cloth. Basis for the classic noir film Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur from a script by the author. The film starred Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. Near fine, some dustiness to top edge in a bright near fine price clipped dust jacket, light shelf wear to spine ends and corners with very minor loss, two small closed tears to lower front panel, closed tear and creases to upper rear panel. (8159) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Burton, Virginia LeeLittle House London: Faber and Faber, 1946. First British Edition, First Printing, which was preceded four years earlier by the American edition. In Good condition. Cloth is faded, mottled, spotted, toned and edge worn with some rubbing and fraying at extremities. A few stray marks to cloth. Pages have a light storage odor, and show light toning, thumbing and wear. The letters on the title page appear to have been traced in pencil, then the pencil erased, leaving faint indents. Small closed tear to bottom of title page. Rear hinge starting. First British printing of this desirable and scarce Caldecott Medal winner.